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Page 41 of 2571910 · PDF PAGE 272
…sheesh delirum, another dose, however small—yes, though it be no larger than half a pea—be employed to prolong the condition, such agony will inevitably ensue as will make the soul shudder at its own possibility of endurance without annihilation. By repeated experiments, which now occupy the most horrible place upon my catalogue of horrible remem- brances, have I proved that, among all the variable phenomena of hasheesh, this alone stands unvarying. The use of it directly after any other stimulus will produce consequences as appalling. I exting…
1919 · PDF PAGE 353
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE itself; and this is will’s one fatal flaw. It will however be un- derstood that aspiration constantly changes and develops with progress. The beginner can only see a certain distance. Just so with our first telescopes we discovered many new stars, and with each improvement in the instrument we have discovered more. The second and more obvious meaning in the verse preaches the practice of Yama, Niyama, before serious practice is started, and this in actual life means, map out your career as well as you can. Decide to do …
1996 · PDF PAGE 155
156 The Law is for All 4. Choose ye an island! 5. Fortify it! 6. Dung it about with enginery of war! 7. I will give you a war-engine. 8. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. 9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. 10. Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple— and that temple is already aright disposed—& it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
…ience, the Manager should comeforward and say: “ Ladies and Gentlemen, owing to the severe indzspositzon of the Author, no obscene jests will be found to occur in the dialogue of this play. The actors have, however, been instructed to pause and wink atfrequent intervals, when you are at liberty to imagine an unusually profound and peculiarly foul double entendre. We have also gone to the expense of hiring people to sit in the stalls and start the laughs, so that there is no excuse whatever for any ofyou to complain of having passed an unprurien…
1907 · PDF PAGE 290
…e about us , and the wild comets speed by , and suns embrace suns , and the moons melt shrieking through the firmament . Then all powers will dissolve , and the great golden dawn effulgent will flash through the portals of night , standing before us bride of our desire , robed in a million suns , the stars flaming in her hair , incarnate symbol of perpetual youth . So we feel with Crowley that : Time and again , in the History of Science , a period has arrived when , gorged with facts , she has sunk into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by …
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…suit upon the experiment either as adju¬ vants to or causes of the resuit, or as inhibiting it, or as sources of error. 4. The A.-. A.*, will not take official notice of any experi¬ ments which are not thus properly recorded. 5. It is not necessary at this stage for us to déclaré fully the ultimate end of our researchesj nor indeed would it be understood by those who hâve not become proficient in these elementary courses. 6. The expérimenter is encouraged to use his own intelligence, and not to rely upon any other person or persons, however dis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…ister Cybele. And in truth the boy could hardly stand. "Action and reaction are equal and opposite," explained Simon Iff, cheerily. "You will sleep, Brother Cyril, and you will then pass seven days in meditation, in one of the high trances. I will see to the extension of your leave." "There is a meditation," said Cyril firmly, "given by the Buddha, a meditation upon a corpse torn by wild beasts. I will take that." Simon Iff acquiesced without comprehending. He did not know that Cyril Grey had understood that the corpse of Douglas was his own; t…
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
…sides, of course, many more. But let us suppose that these five are all. Call the man X; his formula is then Xt+#+4+», If he now eat, he will cease to be extended in hunger; if he be cut off from time and gravitation as well, he will now be repre- sented by the formula X++*, Should he cease to occupy space and to exist, his formula would then be X*. This expression is equal to 1; whatever X may represent, if it be raised to the power of 0, (this meaning mathemat- ically “if it be extended in no dimension or category”) the result is Unity, and t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 472
…s had arrived at the Rue du Vieux Colombier. The lady thanked her improvised cavalier, and renewed her invitation to come to see her. “J will try to do so,” said Eliphas; ‘but if I come shall I ask the porter for Mlle. de la Merlitre?” “Do not do so,” said she; ‘I am not known under that name; ask for Mme. Dutruck.” “Dutruck, certainly, madam; I present my humble compliments.” And they separated. The trial of the assassin began, and Eliphas, reading in the newspapers that the man was a priest, that he had belonged to the clergy of St. Germain |…
1913 · PDF PAGE 472
…s had arrived at the Rue du Vieux Colombier. The lady thanked her improvised cavalier, and renewed her invitation to come to see her. “J will try to do so,” said Eliphas; ‘but if I come shall I ask the porter for Mlle. de la Merlitre?” “Do not do so,” said she; ‘I am not known under that name; ask for Mme. Dutruck.” “Dutruck, certainly, madam; I present my humble compliments.” And they separated. The trial of the assassin began, and Eliphas, reading in the newspapers that the man was a priest, that he had belonged to the clergy of St. Germain |…
1916 · PDF PAGE 2
… that gold was the only basis, that already there has been a threat to demonetize gold. This is no vain threat. It is quite possible and will almost certainly be necessary; though probably the process will be carried out by some trick which will conceal the fact from the people. But you cannot demonetize wheat, or coal, or copper, and any one who possesses these things can call for anything he likes in payment for them, and be sure of getting it. But the financiers of the day avoid all consideration of the enormous calamity threatened by the pr…
1919 · PDF PAGE 74
…From a certain world came an infinite wail.) That falling petal seemed to the little ones a wave to engulph their continent. 37. So they will reproach thy servant, saying: Who hath set thee to save us? 38. He will be sore distressed. 39. All they understand not that thou and I are fash- ioning a boat of mother-of-pearl. We will sail down the river of Amrit even to the yew-groves of Yama, where we may rejoice exceedingly. 40. The joy of men shall be our silver gleam, their woe our blue gleam—all in the mother-of-pearl. 41. (The scribe was wroth …
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
…thou mayst understand by the Study of the Book of the Vision and the Voice. It is thus a Glyph of the Satisfaction and Perfection of the Will and of the Work, the completion of the True Man as the Reconcilor of the Highest with the Lowest, so for our Convenience conventionally to distinguish them. This then is the Adept, who doth Will with solid Energy as the Bull, doh dare with fierce Courage as the Lion, doth know with swift Intelligence as the Man, and doth keep Silence with soaring Subtilty as the Eagle or Dragon. Moreover, this Sphinx is a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 88
…od ! No chance of heirs failing — ha ! But a word in your ear. This morphia ? SIR HERPES Z. Not a sign of relapse, old friend, and never will be now. Sir Percy is as sound a man as lives in England — I took four other opinions. SIR GRABSON J. None as weighty as your own ! SIR HERPES Z. You are polite, very polite. Where is Carruthers ? SIR GRABSON J. He is away to Windsor — the King (they beat their foreheads eightyseven times upon the ground) knights him to-day. SIR HERPES Z. I knew he had the O.M. and the F.Z.S. ; but this knight- hood ? SIR …
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…l passions of man, gambols about its master’s heelsj and He bestrides the Ass of Priapus; he makes his sexual force carry him whither He wills to go. Let the Magician therefore adventure himself upon the Astral Plane with the declared design to penetrate to a sanctuary of discarnate Beings such as are able to instruct and fortify him, also to prove their identity by testimony beyond rebuttal. Ail explana- tions other than these are of value only as extending and equi- Jibrating Knowledge, or possibly as supplying Energy to such Magicians as may…
1905 · PDF PAGE 154
… cries! No sob shall shake these nerves : no ecstasies Of hope, or fear, or love avail to move Those iron-hearted dooms and destinies. I will be calm and firm as I were Zeus. I will descend to Hades and unloose My wife: prevail on pale Persephone, Laving her love-locks with exalted dews Of stern grey song; such roseate tunes espouse That all the echoes of that lonely house Answer me sob for sob, that she decree With love deep-seated in her lofty brows Forth sparkling: and with Hades intercede. So as I stir the judgment-seat, and plead, The awfu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 104
…d ; Crushed, as a grape between his teeth, my fears ; Sucked out my life And stamped me with the shame, the monstrous word of wife. VI I will not weep; nay, I will follow him. Perchance he is not far,
1909 · PDF PAGE 104
…d ; Crushed, as a grape between his teeth, my fears ; Sucked out my life And stamped me with the shame, the monstrous word of wife. VI I will not weep; nay, I will follow him. Perchance he is not far,
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…dug holes in his skin and filled them with lighted bamboo-shoots dipped in wax, is said to have observed : These are many flamelets, and will soon expire, but my soul is One Flame, and will not. And there is a tale of an harlot, who retorted on some men who reviled her : “ You are like the raindrops ; but this my vul- va is One Pool.” They stoned her for the blasphe- my.
1905 · PDF PAGE 169
…R’S TRAGEDY ULRIC. What is my life without the love of thee? CoRA. I hate each word as I do hate the devil. ULRIC. I am bound a slave Tt will eat me up. I, each evasion. To this wild passion. CORA. You cannot guess the horror that you speak. I tell you, if I know your golden heart, This detestation of yourself shall cry The cry of CEdipus—“‘ I have profaned 23 ULRIC., What sphinx more cruel? What new - CEdipus? You riddle, Cora, and it breaks my heart. [He seks exhausted. (Rallying.) By God, I swear to you no lie shall keep Its Dead Sea bar aga…